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NOT A Recommendation For Weiner
Jonathan Bernstein says this is not a recommendation for Weiner just now:
As far as constituents are concerned, that’s where I get to the Gramm example. Phil Gramm was a Democratic Member of the House from Texas. During the first years of the Reagan presidency, Speaker Tip O’Neill believed that Gramm, a member of the budget committee, had betrayed Democrats through a series of actions (Wikipedia has it wrong; it wasn’t simply for how he voted on tax cuts), and tossed Gramm off that committee. In response, Gramm not only switched to the Republican Party, but resigned his seat in Congress, and then ran for and won back his House seat in the subsequent special election.
I don’t recall anyone before or since who did what Gramm did, but I’ve always thought that it was an admirable choice on his part, and that it’s a reasonable model for someone in, say, Weiner’s current position.
The NYTimes has a slew of debaters weighing in on whether the Dems can keep the seat. Polls say this and that, so your free to believe what you want.
2 Responses to “NOT A Recommendation For Weiner”
Some enjoy the intellectual exercise of considering the relocation of the federal capital to where it belongs now. (Easily #1 is Kansas City, located more precisely at Independence, MO, though nearby is fine. Other suggestions: Council Bluffs-Omaha and Oklahoma City, and East St. Louis, IL, across from St. Louis by the Mississippi River.)
Related to what I just wrote, what would the new capital structures look like? (assuming the Washington buildings weren’t moved, too, but left as a National Historic Site and tourist destination)
Jobs’s ring, or my more elaborate design, might indeed be one possibility –
– or just, say, for Congress, which shouldn’t have anyone like Weiner in it.
NOT FOR WEINER.
Multiple drawings of building, location map and campus diagrams — this is one of the best pages to look at, Joe.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/steve-jobs-cupertino/
Location and reputed designer:
http://inhabitat.com/apples-new-headquarters-will-be-designed-by-norman-foster/
Joe, you might want to address this “Apple City” sometime here.
(separate article and thread)
(Hopefully the tunnels connecting buildings would have bike lanes or electric-vehicle, cart, lanes…)